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Thought For Today: Fathering Is Not Something Perfect Men Do, But Something That Prefects the Man
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No News, Anxiety Blues
No News, Anxiety Blues
by Michael Doyle
Even though they tell me
That I wear victory's crown
They'll never totally sell me
That I should not feel down
Yes, I survived and stand alive
I can't say the same for friends
Patriotic to the point of deep dive
Now, I just want memories to end
To some, this might seem quizzical
Others will seek out the metaphysical
I just want to sleep one good night
Without waking in cold sweat and fright
Joy and sorrow do combat in my soul
While my face says I'm in full control
There's much to be said in Jungian analysis
But I wake sometimes in total paralysis
Unable to move as I stare at the wall
Lost deep within things I refuse to recall
Decisions that in a moment needed made
No black and white; all is blended shade
Though I'm safe from any major calamity
It's not really news. I'm lost in anxiety
Second-guessing choices that I have made
Most of which were above my pay grade
To some, this might seem quizzical
Others will seek out the metaphysical
I just want to sleep one good night
Without waking in cold sweat and fright
Joy and sorrow do combat in my soul
While my face says I'm in full control
I shake inside the bits of Jungian analysis
And I wake sometimes in total paralysis
It's the no news, anxiety's worse blues
It comes across in a thousand different hues
None of which quite look right in my eyes
With no time for fear, yet, I recognize
The thought that maybe I made the wrong choices
I find it hard to move or to find my voice
Carrying on to carry on, It had to be done
Those dead were someone else's beloved sons
To some, this might seem a little quizzical
Others will pray to something metaphysical
I just want to sleep one more good night
Without soul shaking, sweating with fright
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow do combat in my soul
My straight face says I remain in full control
While I'm quaking inside, processing Jungian analysis
Feeling dread inside, I wake in total paralysis
If the devil is the dancer across my worst fears
Can someone tell me, does it disappear with years
If God is the answer, why don't my prayers find a cure
Is there anything able to offer something to assure
That I won't lose it, thinking on decisions I made
I feel my brightness fading hard into the grim shade
Then I look at my daughters. and remember what is love
When they aren't looking, I pray to that God above
... and I pray for forgiveness
... Having never known this
.. but needing to feel love
... Sometimes I even question God above
(c) June 15, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Step In Avoiding Periodic Wars, Which Are Inevitable In A System of International Lawlessness, Is To Make Statesmen Responsible to Law
“The ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible to law. And let me make clear that while this is first applied against German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose it must condemn, aggression by other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment.” – Robert Jackson, at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (November 21, 1945)
First Principles: Let the American Youth Never Forget, That They Possess A Noble Inheritance, Bought By the Toils, and Sufferings and Blood of Their Ancestors
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” – Joseph Story (1833)
Scargiver’s Fight
Scargiver's Fight
by Michael Doyle
To fight and then to live to fight
Even while knowing we cannot win
To hold pride in the battle
Even though knowing pride is a sin
This is the way of warriors
Willing to bear the cost
Even while knowing the truth
Honor - real honor - cannot be lost
When we choose to fight
And are not fighting because we were told
The goodness of our cause comes to light
Win or die, as with the knights of old
We will shine in the battle of our cause
Supporting the nobility of our laws
This is the way of freedom and true liberty
Even if we shall die, we will do it with dignity
Each of us has live our measured seasons
Each of us holds true despite the treasons
We stand here firmly for our own reasons
And so our children will live their own seasons
Knowing the price that we have paid full cost
Despite the sacrifices knowing well the lost
And losses sustained that the future will hold
A place of respect in telling the tales of old
(c) June 14, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Battle, Cause, Children, Choose, Cost, Die, Dignity, Fight, Firm, Freedom, Full Cost, Future, Goodness, Hold, Honor, Knights of Old, Know, Law, Liberty, Light, Lost, Measure, Nobility, Own, Place of Respect, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Reasons, Sacrifice, Scargiver, Seasons, Sin, Sustain, Tales of Old, Told, Treason, Truth, Way of Warriors, Win, Win Or Die, Wlling
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Thought For the Day: The Clearest Way To Show What the Rule of Law Means To Us In Everyday Life Is To Recall What Happened When There Is No Rule of Law
“The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Tagged Clearest Way, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Everyday Life, Mean, No Rule of Law, Recall, Rule of Law, Show, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: You Have Heard That It Was Said, ‘Love Your Neighbor and Hate Your Enemy.’ But I Tell You , Love Your Enemies and Pray For Those Who Persecute You
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.“ – Matthew 5:43-44
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Profit and Schemes
Profit and Schemes
by Michael Doyle
It's hard to tell the difference
Between the pursuit of profit and schemes
The wise pirate holds great reverence
For the pirate captain's dreams
Landlubbers hold their stock
In the mild talk of stability
But an adventurer holds to the talk
Of betting one's strength and ability
A pirate's life is based on deals
Stumbled and wagered best as one can
All business held is less than ideal
Such is the life of a pirating man
Giving all for one more knot of speed
Holding fast to always hope and recall
The crew needs a little more than greed
Or a pirate's pride will surely fall
Money taken while sailing under the black
Is money that is never promised coming back
Some say this is to misunderstand the sincerity
Others hold that we will always shade our own reality
(c) June 13, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Ability, Adventurer, All Business, Bet, Black, Captain, Coming Back, Deals, Difference, Dreams, Fall, Greed, Holding Fast, Hope, Ideal, Knot, Landlubbers, Life, Misunderstood, Money, Pirate's Life, Pirate's Pride, Poetry and Poems, Profit and Schemes, Promise, Pursuit, Reality, Recall, Revereence, Shade, Sincerity, Speed, Stability, Stock, Strength, Stumble, Talk, Tell, The Crew, Wagered Bet, Wise Pirate
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First Principles: We Lay It Down As Fundamental, That Laws, To be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; Without this, The Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” -Thomas Jefferson, in Notes On the State of Virginia (1782)
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Thought For the Day: Out of the Quarrel With Others We Make Rhetoric; Out of the Quarrel With Ourselves We Make Poetry
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (13 Jun 1865-1939)
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Tagged Others, Ourself, Out, Poetry, Quarrel, Rhetoric, Thought For the Day, William Butler Yeats
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